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Of the websites I see regularly, only Phil Weiss and his colleague Adam Horowitz seem the least bit troubled by the Israeli assault on Gaza. But the world is smaller now, and the use of this much American made air power against defenseless civilian targets will have some blowback, probably in this direction. Last week [...]
Filed under: Foreign policy
“I’ve abandoned free-market principles to save the free-market system,” President Bush told CNN, defending his offer of $17 billion in loans to the Big Three “to make sure the economy doesn’t collapse.” Thus did Bush concede that protectionism, if a critical U.S. industry is in peril, must trump free-trade ideology. For in offering the bailout [...]
From everyone at TAC.
Filed under: Announcements
An actual headline at National Review Online right now: “Peace on Earth at Missile Silo 571-7.”
Filed under: War
With the defeat of John McCain, have we at last seen the end of the neocons? Don’t bet on it, says Jacob Heilbrunn, even if the neocons may be splitting into rival New York and D.C. camps. Justin Raimondo wishes Rod Blagojevich a very merry Fitzmas. Poor Blago isn’t much different from any other politician [...]
Filed under: Conservatism, Magazines, Politics, Scandal
Walter Russell Mead showed up before a full house yesterday at the New America Foundation to talk about the area where Obama has a greater open field to make a difference than any other: Israel/Palestine. I am skeptical about Mead, an Iraq war supporter who penned a dismissive review of Walt and Mearsheimer’s important Israel [...]
Filed under: Foreign policy, Uncategorized
Paul Weyrich, who died last Thursday, was one of the half dozen leaders who brought forth the conservative victory in Washington. With the Iraq war, as most Republicans were overcome by the siren songs of big government and world empire, Weyrich remained an extraordinary defender of freedom and limited government. He opposed starting confrontations with [...]
Filed under: Conservatism, War
“De mortuis nil nisi bonum.” Of the dead, nothing but good. So said Dean Acheson of Sen. Joe McCarthy on his death in 1957. “Tailgunner Joe” had bedeviled the secretary of state for his lassitude toward communist penetration of State in President Truman’s time. But the passing of Mark Felt, associate director of the FBI [...]
The Associated Press is reporting: “President Hamid Karzai pressed America’s top military leader Monday on the U.S. strategy in Afghanistan as it prepares to pour up to 30,000 more forces into the country. Karzai asked Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, what kinds of operations the newly deployed troops would [...]
Filed under: Foreign policy, War
Finding yesterday’s Washington Post Outlook section as ruefully unsatisfying as ever, I nearly missed the quite substantive charges leveled in commentary by former Bush official Thomas A. Schweich — but I’m glad I didn’t — it’s a conversation we need desperately to have, but probably won’t, in 2009. Schweich, who served under Bush as ambassador [...]
Filed under: Foreign policy, Politics, Uncategorized, War